Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About the Position

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

We are seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our engineering team in Paris, France, ensuring our systems handle high traffic with reliability and performance.

Location

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

About the Role

In the initial months, you'll be working closely with the founding team, gradually taking ownership of central components.

We are on the brink of something monumental, anticipating a tidal wave of traffic. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring our systems not only handle the influx but thrive under the pressure.

We focus on performance and reliability, our traffic is live and our latency is the most important metric we need to watch. We work very closely with the backend team, helping everyone to bring code in production. Automation is key as it is for most of our industry, if you need to repeat a task, automate it; for everything.

Responsibilities

Vision and Leadership

• Define and lead the long-term infrastructure vision and roadmap, ensuring amo’s systems remain reliable, scalable, and secure as we grow globally.
• Guide a small, high-performing team of SRE engineers, setting a clear direction while staying close to execution.
• Cultivate a culture of reliability, ownership, and technical excellence, one that balances speed and stability every day.

System Design and Management

• Design and maintain distributed databases at large scale across multiple clusters (ScyllaDB).
• Test, scale, and design high throughput monitoring infrastructure to handle 1M+ series per second.

Automation and Efficiency

• Automate everything from monitoring dashboards to database installations or cluster management.
• Implement automated Kubernetes Pod Autoscaler to achieve close to 90% CPU usage per machine while maintaining high-quality services and containing costs.

Backend Team Partnership

• Partner with software engineers to bring code into production.
• Work with our partners (GCP, ScyllaDB, Redpanda …) to help us push their products to the limit.

Software Engineering and Development

• Code as being SRE at amo means being a Software Engineer.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, and bring to production new concepts, new tools to help the company grow faster.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of system architecture and software development.
• Proficiency in at least one low-level language, ideally Rust or Go.
• Strong knowledge with monitoring and alerting tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure, including strong proficiency in AWS and/or GCP.
• Proven success in scaling high-traffic production environments with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence cross-functional teams.
• Pragmatic, hands-on, and comfortable moving between strategy and execution.

Nice to Have

• Experience with other cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with additional programming languages.

We Offer

• Health care (100% coverage).
• Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%).
• Vacation days: 8-9 weeks (total) per year.
  • 5 weeks of paid time off (by the state);
  • 1-2 additional weeks (RTT, based on our company contract);
  • ~11 bank holidays.
• We shut down entirely twice a year, two weeks in summer and one week in winter to allow everyone to truly recharge and to avoid prolonged slowdowns (especially in the summer). These pauses are part of your total vacation time, giving everyone a real chance to unplug and recharge. No Slack, no email, no FOMO.

About the Company

We love the diverse perspectives we get from having people from all over the world join us (68% of our team is international), and so we of course support relocation to Paris with:

• Help and sponsored visa process.
• 1 month of Airbnb 100% covered by amo upon arrival.
• Assistance from a trusted relocation agency to find your permanent home.
• Help with french paperwork like opening a french social security account, tax forms, getting your carte vitale (free healthcare) and more.
• French lessons to be fully set with your new Parisian life.